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Record Number: 30002

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, approved.

7. Frank Pollard then introduced the subject for the evening, Modern Authors. [...]

8. There followed a series of talks, in most cases acompanied by readings: these were in the order named
Janet Rawlings, on E. H. Young�s �Miss Mole�
Dorothy Brain, on T. S. Eliot�s �Murder in the Cathedral�
R. H Robson on some Poems of W. H. Auden
V. W. Alexander on Ren� Bazin�s �La Terre qui meurt� and �Les Oberl�, and finally
Charles Stansfield on Winifred Holtby�s �South Riding.�'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

23 Jun 1936

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Reading
county: Berkshire
specific address: 22, Cintra Avenue

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Victor Alexander

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1887

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

Quaker or associated with the Friends

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Members of the XII Book Club

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

[a paper on Ren� Bazin�s La Terre qui meurt, and Les Oberl�]

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Literature

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30002

Source:

Manuscript

Author:

Victor Alexander

Title:

XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938)

Location:

private collection

Call No:

n/a

Page/Folio:

173�175

Additional Information:

Victor Alexander was secretary to the XII Book Club from 1931 to 1940. It is inferred from this that he was the author of this set of minutes.

Citation:

Victor Alexander, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 3 (1931-1938), private collection, 173�175, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30002, accessed: 04 February 2026

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Additional Comments:

Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php).